The year-long exhibition, "The Art of the Enlightenment," staged in partnership with the Berlin State Museums, the Dresden State Art Collections and the Bavarian State Picture Collections, brought hundreds of works to the eastern edge of Tiananmen Square.
With increasing cash payments, new members would be inducted through an endless number of enlightenment-stages and progressively cleansed of their earthly pain.
An Enlightenment Level Up.
The image is of a serpent, coiled and dormant, awakened and driven upward in the body through various stages of enlightenment until it reaches the brain, the highest awareness.
Each painting has a faux-bronze frame carved with small symbols representing different stages of enlightenment and punctuated at the top by a round, electrically illuminated stained-glass image of an eye in the tip of a pyramid.
Guests compared notes on their stage of enlightenment.
The final culminating stage of enlightenment then is what corresponds to Shingon doctrine as the most comprehensive, and hence "most true".
In turn this has permitted noise reduction techniques to be examined by studies of local component vibration levels rather than overall noise, a method which provides considerable enlightenment at the design stage.
Each platform represents one stage of enlightenment.
Of course, it doesn't work like that; the world hasn't reached that stage of enlightenment yet.
One can look at existence as a stage preceding enlightenment.
